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Astakides
Astacides
Of Astacus (lake) |
THE ASTAKIDES (or Astacides) were Naiad Nymphs of Lake Astakos in Bithynia (Anatolia).
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| Presumably daughters of Lake ASTAKOS or the River SAGGARIOS |
"The Nymphe of the mountain [Didymos] was sore offended at manslaying Nikaia [a Nymphe who slew the shepherd who loved her with an arrow], and lamented over the body of Hymnos; in her watery hall the girl [Naias] of [the river] Rhyndakos groaned, carried along barefoot by the water; the Naiades wept … in the heights of Didymos, gathering near the woods, the Astakides [Nymphai of Astakos] upbraided the Nymphe [Nikaia] of Kybele with her ways, singing the dirge." - Nonnus, Dionysiaca 15.370
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- Nonnos, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th AD
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